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Borussia Dortmund booked their place in the DFB-Pokal semi-finals by beating Hoffenheim 3-2 thanks to a magnificent Sebastian Kehl goal.

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Written ByNicholas McGee

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Sebastian Kehl scored a stunning extra-time winner as Borussia
Dortmund progressed to the semi-finals of the DFB-Pokal with a 3-2
win over Hoffenheim on Tuesday.

Dortmund, last year's beaten finalists, were made to work hard
for their place in the last four, despite Neven Subotic giving them
an early lead with a smart strike.

Kevin Volland's fierce finish equalised matters soon after and
Roberto Firmino capitalised on a mistake from Subotic to turn
things in the visitors' favour before half-time.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang levelled things up once more in 57th
minute as he converted from Erik Durm's cross and, although
Dortmund could not finish things off in normal time, Kehl did so
spectacularly after 107 minutes.

The veteran midfielder let fly with a magnificent volley from 30
yards that cannoned off the post and in to keep Dortmund's hopes of
silverware alive.

Dortmund's early dominance of possession was rewarded in the
19th minute when Subotic hooked a volley in off the post from Jakub
Blaszczykowski’s corner.

But the hosts' lead lasted just two minutes, Volland answering
in fine fashion as Dortmund failed to defend a corner at the other
end.

And Hoffenheim then completed the turnaround, Subotic going from
hero to villain in the 27th minute with a sloppy piece of
defending.

Subotic lost possession to Firmino inside his own half and the
Brazil forward - who netted his first goal for his country in the
recent international break - made no mistake by racing away and
coolly lifting the ball over Mitchell Langerak.

Dortmund went close to levelling three minutes into the second
half when Aubameyang fired narrowly wide of the left-hand post,
before Ilkay Gundogan shot straight at Oliver Baumann at the end of
a free-flowing move.

However, Aubameyang then atoned for his earlier miss, meeting
Durm's cross with a powerful header that left Baumann helpless.

The Hoffenheim goalkeeper was equal to Aubameyang's next effort,
though, which he turned wide at the near post as Dortmund pressed
for a winner.

Baumann thwarted Subotic 12 minutes from time, the Serb seeing
his header from another Blaszczykowski corner brilliantly turned
over the crossbar.

Eugen Polanaski was denied at the other end by Langerak and
Firmino lashed wide late on as both teams searched for a winner,
with normal time fittingly ended by a Baumann save from
Blaszczykowski.

Dortmund dominated the first period of extra time, and were
finally rewarded two minutes into the second period by Kehl's
superb drive after Hoffenheim had failed to clear a cross into the
box.

Kevin Kampl then shot over the bar from point-blank range after
Baumann had kept out a Shinji Kagawa header but that mattered not
as Dortmund stood firm to seal progression in dramatic fashion.

In Tuesday's other quarter-final, a second-half penalty from
Ricardo Rodriguez gave Wolfsburg a 1-0 home win over Freiburg.